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Paperback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347255
ISBN
9780822347255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 30.22

Hardback. This provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy draws on the work of feminist, black, and queer critics showing how happiness is used to justify social oppression. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HPQ; JFFK; JFS; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5753 x 3971 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822346661
ISBN
9780822346661
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 123.67

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847429674
ISBN
9781847429674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 37.95

Paperback. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813583914
ISBN
9780813583914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.43

Hardback. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813583921
ISBN
9780813583921
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 169.63

Hardcover. An entertaining album of over 50 folk rituals performed across the country, throughout the year. With more than 100 colour photographs accompanied by captions tracing the history and significance of each ritual, this is a celebration of English eccentricity that will appeal to anyone interested in folklore, tradition and national heritage. Num Pages: 176 pages, 100 col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JHBT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 264 x 21. Weight in Grams: 986.
Publisher
Merrell Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781858945590
ISBN
9781858945590
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 21.86

Paperback. Offers a collection of pieces on adoption, by writers from three sides of the issue: adopted children, birth mothers, and adoptive parents. The pieces in this work talk about identity, family, love and belonging. Editor(s): Holloway, Sara. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JHBK; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862078574
ISBN
9781862078574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.10

Hardcover. * A practical overview of clinical issues related to end-of-life care including grief and bereavement. * Beginning with the physiology of the dying process and its effects on patients and their loved ones, the book addresses the range of psychological interventions that can ease the process for all. Series: Wiley Series in Clinical Geropsychology. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JHBZ; JMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 674.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470406939
ISBN
9780470406939
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.19

Paperback. Presents an ethnographic study of China/US adoption, the largest contemporary intercountry adoption program. This book also follows the path of the adoption process: the institutions in both China and the US that prepare children and parents for each other; the practices that legitimate them coming together as transnational families; and more. Series: Nation of Nations. Num Pages: 331 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 1KBB; JFFN; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
331
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780814719725
ISBN
9780814719725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.63

Paperback. Focused on marital immigration from China to Taiwan, the book documents the struggles of these women and men as they seek acceptance and recognition in their new home. Num Pages: 264 pages, 7 b/w, 2 maps, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; HBTB; JFFN; JHBK; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520286238
ISBN
9780520286238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.41

Hardcover. Explores the practices that have constituted eastern Hui'an residents, women in particular, as an anomaly among rural Han. This book asks what such practices have come to mean in a post-1949 socialist order that has incorporated forms of marriage, labour and dress into a developmental scale extending from the primitive to the civilised. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 21 line illustrations, 3 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021280
ISBN
9780674021280
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 45.36

Paperback. Illuminates the origins, purposes, and features of portraiture, a method of inquiry that shares some of the features of other qualitative research methods such as ethnography, case study, and narrative placing it within the larger discourse on social science inquiry and mapping it onto the broader terrain of qualitative research. Num Pages: 306 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 192 x 17. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780787962425
ISBN
9780787962425
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JH; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226222578
ISBN
9780226222578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.01

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University College Dublin Press Dublin
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904558873
ISBN
9781904558873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.90

Paperback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822369745
ISBN
9780822369745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 27.19

Hardback. Sara R. Farris examines the calls for gender equality from an unlikely collection of European right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policymakers, showing how their exploitation of feminist ideals justifies anti-Islam and anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822369608
ISBN
9780822369608
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 117.04

Hardcover. The first comprehensive ethnography of the Thangmi, a marginalized community who migrate between Himalayan border zones, Rituals of Ethnicity explores Thangmi cultural worlds and regional political histories to offer a new explanation for the persistence of enduring ethnic identities despite the realities of mobile, hybrid lives. Series: Contemporary Ethnography. Num Pages: 328 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKN; JFSL; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 36. Weight in Grams: 676.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780812246834
ISBN
9780812246834
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.54

Paperback. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism. Num Pages: 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSL9; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 568.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360100
ISBN
9780822360100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 32.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 10 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FBJ; HRHP; JHMC; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501700460
ISBN
9781501700460
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 33.63

paperback. Focusing on the countryside, this book explores issues of ethnicity, identity and racialised exclusion in rural Britain. It questions what the countryside 'is', problematises who is seen as belonging to rural spaces, and argues for the recognition of a rural multiculture. Editor(s): Agyeman, Julian; Neal, Sarah. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFF; JHMP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861347954
ISBN
9781861347954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 37.91

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